Fedora 43 switching to only Wayland desktop

There was a change proposal created earlier in the week on the Fedora wiki to drop support for X11 entirely for Fedora 43. This would make the Fedora 43 the first release of a major distro with Wayland as the only display protocol. The proposal also highlights that Gnome itself, Fedora's main workstation desktop, plans to remove support for X11 by version 50. Gnome recently release version 48. Both projects have a six month release cycle, so in about a year and a half, no more X11 on Fedora.

I think overall this a positive step towards the future. Fedora, and Gnome on Wayland has already surpassed the X11 session with features that aren't only available on X11, they would be very difficult to actually develop. This move will also force any final missing pieces that need to implemented within the Wayland protocols to be accelerated. It simplifies the overall Linux ecosystem as well. Xwayland will still remain as a compatibility layer for older applications.